American Boxer Quotes

Muhammad Ali

Mike Tyson

Joe Frazier

George Foreman

Joe Louis

Sugar Ray Robinson

Rocky Marciano

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

The man to beat me hasn't been born yet.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

Greb gave me a terrible whipping. My jaw was swollen from the right temple down the cheek, along the chin and part way up the other side. The referee, the ring itself, was full of my blood. If boxing was afflicted with the commission doctors that we have now, the first fight probably would have been stopped and no one would have heard of me today.

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

She clawed in bits of glass and brick,
Then lifted out a shoe.
"O, here's the shoe my baby wore
But, baby, where are you?"

I don't like Marvin. Never have and never will. I just want to tell you something. Get there early and sit tight. Don't blink. You might miss the fight.

I respect Floyd as a fighter but come 5 May, he's going to be hurting for weeks.

Oscar De La Hoya

I found out Scott (Brown) is anti-union and I'm a Teamster guy. I found out he's also against gay marriage, and I say if you love someone, you should have the same rights no matter who you are.

I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.

Bernard Hopkins

While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

As a champion, you carry an air of invincibility... folks see you as bigger than life. When you lose, though, they feel as though they'd been fooled, suckered into thinking so highly of you; that's why folks jump off that bandwagon quick as can be, and then throw stones at it.

Mister, it's my business to get him in trouble.

Sugar Ray Robinson

My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

I will not quit until I am a five-times world champion.

After defeating Lou Savarese

Evander Holyfield

You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

About Oscar de la Hoya:

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.